SmartOS

Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor

Comparison

Triton SmartOS combines the capabilities you get from a lightweight container OS, optimized to deliver containers, with the robust security, networking and storage capabilities you’ve come to expect and depend on from a hardware hypervisor.

Container OS

Hardware Hypervisor

VM hypervisor

Lightweight container host

Instance types

Containers & VMs

Containers

VMs

Multi-tenant secure

Built-in networking

Built-in storage

Bare metal performance

Yes, containers run secure on bare metal

No, Containers run on VMs for security

Open Source

Key Features of Triton SmartOS

Secure containers Full isolation per container in a multi-tenant environment

Triton SmartOS leverages Zones, a hardened container runtime environment that does not depend upon VM hosts for security. Patented resource protections insulate containers and ensure that each container gets its fair share of I/O.

Built-in networking Each Triton container has its own unique IP address

Triton SmartOS eliminates the complexities associated with VM host dependent solutions. Built-in networking offers each container one or more network interfaces, so each container has a full IP stack and is a full peer on the network, eliminating port conflicts and making network management easy.

By eliminating layers of virtualization and running containers directly on bare metal, applications enjoy the highest possible performance. And, because you are running on OS virtualized containers, you can easily scale your applications and infrastructure up and down.

Experience Triton SmartOS

Triton SmartOS is the engine that powers the Triton Compute Service and Triton DataCenter.

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